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Allan Peterson

Allan Peterson’s most recent book is: This Luminous, New and Selected Poems. Some other titles include Precarious; All the Lavish in Common (Juniper Prize); and Fragile Acts, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives and writes in Ashland, Oregon.

http://www.allanpeterson.net/

Recital

When she played the accordion it seemed the audience might be there just to see a young girl force herself to breathe hands apparently squeezing her ribs and letting go Under the flexible body the musical geography of bone and …

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The Ocean Is Prolix

and talks with its mouth full of tapered ships deltas the bon voyage tube worms It calls out in trains and crumpled paper with its water engines it stores its voice in shells Hypnotic as fire as it brings out …

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The Rabbit Soprano

Fear has a voice I had not expected, even from the mute. For terror it was worse. When I arrived she was wild-eyed, wet from their mouths, moon-colored, feet hapless. I heard it once long before the Irish opera using …

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Homology

My hand reaches into a batwing, delicate pectoral maneuvering a fish, the oar in plesiosaur, even the sound cupping an ear. Some form is revealing, some obscure. Without experience, what could be predicted from the huge black piano, one wing …

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